March 2018 project newsletter

As the Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence comes to a close, we are publishing our data and our research findings.

In the past month three project datasets were published:

The Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence dataset, a global dataset of electoral violence broken down by type and by month (electoralviolenceproject.com). The dataset is described in a recently-published journal article: Sarah Birch and David Muchlinski, ‘The Dataset of Countries at Risk of Electoral Violence’, Terrorism and Political Violence, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1364636

The Electoral Violence Prevention Intervention Database (electoralviolenceproject.com), which includes data on electoral violence interventions undertaken by the United National Development Program between 2003 and 2015 inclusive, coded according to intervention type. This dataset is described in the accompanying codebook, and also in the recently-published paper based on the dataset: 2018, Sarah Birch and David Muchlinski, 2018, “Electoral Violence Prevention: What Works?”, Democratization 25(3), pp. 385-403, https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2017.1365841.

Sarah Birch and David Muchlinski, 2017, ‘Electoral Violence: Patterns and Trends’, in Holly Garnett and Margarita Zavadskaya eds. Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes. New York and London: Routledge.

Fischer, Jeff, 2017, ‘National Commissions of Inquiry into Electoral Violence A Study of Practices and Outcomes’, working paper at http://www.electoralviolenceproject.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Jeff-Fischer-Commissions-of-Inquiry-Working-Paper-July-2017.pdf